News Articles for S.2739
S.2739: A bill to authorize certain programs and activities in the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the Department of Energy, to implement further the Act approving the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, to amend the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003, and for other purposes.
April 08, 2008 Governor heads for Manila
The US Senate has calendared for action S.2739, the omnibus package bill that contains legislation federalizing the local immigration system. ...
April 08, 2008 'Status proposal won't prevent federalization'
âThe US Senate is poised to pass S. 2739 (which contains the CNMI measure), and that could happen as early as this week,â Wicker said in an e-mail to the ...
April 08, 2008 NMI nonvoting delegate will get same salary given to US lawmakers
4 this year, CNMI voters will elect their first nonvoting delegate in the US House of Representatives should S. 2739, the omnibus package bill that contains ...
April 07, 2008 Lawyer: NMI residency status wonât delay federalization bill
S. 2739, he added, has bipartisan support in Washington, DC Still, the current discussion on a possible CNMI resident status for long-time guest workers is ...
April 06, 2008 US Senate: GAO report wasn’t suppressed
Bill Wicker, communications director of the committee, told Variety in an e-mail that S. 2739, or the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008, ...
April 06, 2008 US Senate: GAO report wasnât suppressed
Bill Wicker, communications director of the committee, told Variety in an e-mail that itâs also not fair to describe the bill, or S. 2739, as âpoorly ...
April 03, 2008 Variety News Staff
The CNMI federalization bill, under S. 2739, remains pending in the US Senate. Fitial and local business sector representatives went to Washington, ...
April 03, 2008 Variety News Staff
The CNMI federalization bill, under S. 2739, remains pending in the US Senate. Fitial and local business sector representatives went to Washington, ...
April 02, 2008 Fitial says report on federalization bill âsuppressedâ by ...
M. and chairman of the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, is the sponsor of the bill, which is now known as S. 2739. ...
March 31, 2008 Yumul: Some local workers may be displaced by federalization
The enabling legislation, S. 2739, remains pending in the US Senate. Yumul said the plain language of the bill does not address specific questions, ...
March 31, 2008 Yumul: Some local workers may be displaced by federalization
The enabling legislation, S. 2739, remains pending in the US Senate. Yumul said the plain language of the bill does not address specific questions, ...
March 30, 2008 'No permanent residency language in S.2739'
By Mark Rabago Saipan Chamber of Commerce president James T. Arenovski said the new omnibus bill-S.2739-currently pending at the US Senate does not have a ...
March 30, 2008 'No permanent residency language in S.2739'
By Mark Rabago Saipan Chamber of Commerce president James T. Arenovski said the new omnibus bill-S.2739-currently pending at the US Senate does not have a ...
March 24, 2008 The devil will be in the details, says Reyes
By Mark Rabago Reacting to fresh assurances that S.2739 will not be detrimental to the CNMI economy, Gov. Benigno R. Fitial's press secretary Charles P. ...
March 20, 2008 Knight: S.2739 is vague at best
By Mark Rabago The chair of the Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands describes S.2739 as “vague at best and ambiguous in many parts. ...
March 20, 2008 'Assurances not good enough'
The governor's press secretary added that the courts are more likely to find legislative intent in what Congress did in writing S.2739-or the Consolidated ...
March 19, 2008 'S.2739 sensitive to NMI concerns'
By Mark Rabago The spokesman of the powerful Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee said that the provision on CNMI immigration incorporated in S.2739 ...
March 18, 2008 Permanent US status?
By Mark Rabago A ranking congressional staffer insists that the provision on CNMI immigration included in S.2739 allows nonresident workers to remain in the ...
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